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A History of the County of Wiltshire
… Newnton airfield, half in Brokenborough, was laid out as a decoy for Kemble airfield in 1940, and almost immediately …
A History of the County of Somerset
… and in 1695 Thomas Strangways built a five-pipe 280 duck decoy on meadow at Dundon adjoining the moor. Duck, teal, and … nets and tunnels, powder and shot, and repairs to the decoy house. By 1729 the decoy was let out, in 1780 for 50 and in 1785 for 23 a year, …
The History and Topographical Survey of the County of Kent
… part is Nagdon, adjoining to Faversham creck, having a decoy for wild fowl, and a large quantity of marsh land …
A History of the County of Cambridge and the Isle of Ely
… 17th century John Bennet, then lord, tried to establish a decoy pond. 59 His successors, the Westerns, had put up a new …
A History of the County of York North Riding
… fish-ponds in the park, the Long Pond, Great Pond, and New Decoy being at its southern edge. Just outside the lodge …
A History of the County of Somerset
… caught by means of decoys from the later 17th century. A decoy on Meare farm, evidently part of the former mere, had been created by 1685 and a decoy man was its tenant the following year. 252 It was still … but had been abandoned by 1842. 254 Like a probable second decoy nearby, it was formed with six pipes. 255 A similar …
The History and Topographical Survey of the County of Kent
… part of this parish, among the marshes, there is a decoy for wild fowl, the only one, that I know of, in this …
A History of the County of Surrey
… the first school had been built in 1847. There was a duck decoy in the low ground near the old river when Manning and … poultrie, all sorts of fowle in season from his own decoy near his house and all sorts of fresh fish. After dinner we went to see sport at the decoy. I never saw so many herons. The seat stands on a flat, …
A History of the County of Somerset
… land was returned to agricultural use. 203 Fowling Three decoy pools in Sedgemoor were rated in 1854 having been … taken each year. Duck shooting continued in 1978. 204 A decoy in Heath moor belonging to the rectory had been … more than 20 a. including a plot of turf moor with a duck decoy. 289 By 1903 the cottage property, then divided into at …